The Center for Immigration Studies has prepared a detailed employment
breakdown for immigrants and native-born Americans based on December 2008 data, the latest publicly available.
(The Department of Labor generally does not separate out unemployment statistics for immigrants and the nativeborn.)
Among US-born blacks and Hispanics without a high school degree, unemployment is 24.7 percent and 16.2
percent respectively — two to three times the national rate.
By Steve Camarota -- Center for Immigration Studies